Napoli market, there is a backlash for Lorenzo Lucca
Lorenzo Lucca’s name is once again stirring the market. The Napoli striker is once again in the sights of Nottingham Forest, a Premier League club that showed strong interest in him back in March. And now, as the winter window approaches, the idea seems to be making a comeback.
Already reported in the spring
This is not a last-minute interest. As early as the end of March, Lucca was included in a list of targets shared between several clubs, including Inter Milan, AC Milan, Napoli, where he later landed, Atletico Madrid and, indeed, Nottingham Forest. English scouts had been following him for some time, attracted by his atypical but steadily growing physical profile: 2 meters and 1 centimeter in height, imposing presence, good sense of position and obvious progress in playing from the sidelines and working for the team.
The profile that appeals in the Premier
In England, where matches are often won in aerial duels and hand-to-hand combat, Lucca is seen as a suitable striker. Nottingham Forest, protagonist of a horrible start to the season, is looking for a center forward who can offer a concrete alternative in the offensive department, and Lucca fits exactly that kind of profile. Already in the last session, the English club considered him a more affordable option than names like Gyökeres or other Premier League bigwigs.
Napolitan hierarchies
Hired by the Campania club as an alternative to Romelu Lukaku, after the Belgian’s serious injury the Piedmontese player had to take note of the purchase of Rasmus Højlund, with the former Atalanta Dane immediately bypassing him in Antonio Conte’s hierarchies.
A new chance
In the league, in Turin against the granata, Lucca convinced little. On Tuesday, due to a new Højlund forfeit, there was a new chance for him, in the Netherlands, with Psv Eindhoven, a team he faced in the Eredivisie when he wore the Ajax jersey. And against whom he saw it off on a far more prestigious stage, the Champions League: opportunity thrown to the nettles, complete with expulsion for a bad gesture.
